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    Freestyle libre 2 after 30 weeks

    The recent libre2 sensors have mostly been very poor quality, as in "failed to keep talking to the app for any length of time." I previously reported that I could not get the history. and as was said, reinstalling just deletes it. Yesterday I wanted to make a note of a snack while the latest...
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    Novapen 6 falls apart

    Thanks, I panicked. Pedantically, the cartridge doesn't seem to actually have a thread.
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    Novapen 6 falls apart

    Several times when I have picked up my novapen 6 it has come apart and the plunger retracts fully. Apart from lacking a reliable way to fix the part which holds the cartridge, this wastes a lot of insulin getting the plunger far enough advanced to prime a cartridge wich has been in use for some...
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    Are more people getting Type 1 in their late twenties and early thirties?

    I was diagnosed as type 1 approaching age 35 in 1991. That followed some very stressful work in the preceding months, and possibly an infection in the spring (from being tolerably fit, suddenly lost all power, then recovered after a few weeks). And then realised my eyes were too bad to drive...
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    Reliability of Libre 2

    Part of the problem might be in the bluetooth. From time to time I touch my phone (Samsung A14) in a way which causes it to do something undesirable (e.g. change to different open app) which is annoying but livable Maybe I flex it, dunno. Occasionaly it turns off the bluetooth and I only...
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    Anyone having big reliability issues with Freestyle Libre 2 Plus sensors?

    For me, about 50% of the readings have been way above the fingerprick (if above range), or severely below if below range. I do not use Abbot blood meters/strips (had a bad experience years ago, go new batch of strips, almost noe worked) I've also given up on the alarms - if it wakes me up...
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    Freestyle libre 2 after 30 weeks

    With respect, you are lucky with the logbook! When I started on the Libre 2 I was still driving, so I had to make a note in the logbook if the claimed reading was <5 and a BM test was >5, to justify continuing to drive. Since then, I have stopped driving, but I continue to make notes so that I...
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    Very variable libre2 sensor quality ?

    Update: Last Monday evening I started a new sensor, no change. Yesterday (7 days later) I saw there was an update for my Samsung 14 (to November 24). Plugged the phone in to charge and ran the update. Came back an hour or more later when fully charged. Opened librelink and it showed a line of...
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    Very variable libre2 sensor quality ?

    In the past I've moaned about how my sensor often lost contact with my phone. A few months ago, sometime long after the change to libre2, I noticed that my phone was almost always showing the readings. But more recently the signal has been frequently lost. With the current sensor I find it loses...
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    Painful bruising?

    Just noticed this thread. I always put my sensor on my upper arm, more or less where they suggest. Often it hurts a bit for a day or so after fitting (e.g. when it gets touched as I move in bed), and on a couple of occasions there has been marking after a couple of weeks where it obviously went...
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    Annoying 'Tap to open the app librelink android' notifications

    Thanks. Once I had found the Notifications Categories setting and enabled that, I went into librelink and it was silent. But to be sure, I've gone into the app settings for librelink and turned off Allow notifications (android 14, Samsung) - alternative choice was silent which I assume just...
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    Sensor fell off but sticky strip still on arm

    Please do not assume that everyone can hear as well as you can, or that Abbot's customer service people all have the patience to speak slowly and clearly . Anyway, is it normal for the sensor to disconnect from the adhesive while the adhesive strip stays on the arm ? Ithis is the first one that...
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    Sensor fell off but sticky strip still on arm

    I've filed in the online form for a replacement, but that has no space to add informative details. So I tried to email [email protected] quoting the issue number (I've used that address in the past, because my hearing makes some phone conversations problematic) but the mail was rejected. So...
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    Annoying 'Tap to open the app librelink android' notifications

    I did that perhaps late last year (can't find any note of when). My readings change from week to week, I like to be able to look through the past few weeks to compare. Anyway, it looks as if a newer version of the app is what has led to the annoying 'tap to open' notifications (not every time I...
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    Annoying 'Tap to open the app librelink android' notifications

    I've mostly had the signal loss alarm disabled since the first day - if the sensor is on my right arm and the phone is in my left trouser pocket (its normal place) it often loses signal, similarly when I am asleep and move in bed it often shows a gap when I look later. I've just been into the...
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    Annoying 'Tap to open the app librelink android' notifications

    If I remove the app I lose all the recent history fro mmy phone. So I'll only do that when the logbook gets so slow as to be unusable. It would take a lot to persuade me to buy an apple product.
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    High/low sugars

    As a Type 1 I would be very reluctant to set a high-level alarm at less than say 17 - my sugars often spike up after eating, and the libre will also (if scanned) later often show that the scanned reading was above the line on the graph. But validating the reading from the libre against blood...
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    Annoying 'Tap to open the app librelink android' notifications

    For the last two weeks I'm getting annoying 'tap to open the app' notifications. Annoying because they typically come perhaps half a minute after I've opened the app or scanned and are associated with a bee-bee-bee or perhaps bee-blah-bee sound. I've I've already started to make a note in the...
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    Libre 2 signal loss

    For the logbook, maybe it is only a problem on recent phones. I don't use a pump and I'm on android 13. For the 10 minute dialog I had thought this was "results outside the expected change, software is waiting to try to understand where the readings are going." Dunno where I formed that...